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22 Jan 2016
Research article |
| 22 Jan 2016
Laurentide Ice Sheet basal temperatures during the last glacial cycle as inferred from borehole data
C. Pickler
GEOTOP, Centre de Recherche en Géochimie et en Géodynamique, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada
Climate & Atmospheric Sciences Institute and Department of Earth Sciences, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
Centre ESCER pour l'étude et la simulation du climat à l'échelle régionale, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada
J.-C. Mareschal
GEOTOP, Centre de Recherche en Géochimie et en Géodynamique, Université du Québec à Montréal, Québec, Canada
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We propose an innovative framework to organize paleodust records, formalized in a publicly accessible database, and discuss the emerging properties of the global dust cycle during the Holocene by integrating our analysis with simulations performed with the Community Earth System Model. We show how the size distribution of dust is intrinsically related to the dust mass accumulation rates and that only considering a consistent size range allows for a consistent analysis of the global dust cycle.
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C. Hély, A.-M. Lézine, and APD contributors
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B. Vannière, M. Magny, S. Joannin, A. Simonneau, S. B. Wirth, Y. Hamann, E. Chapron, A. Gilli, M. Desmet, and F. S. Anselmetti
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A. Francke, B. Wagner, M. J. Leng, and J. Rethemeyer
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J. Fohlmeister, A. Schröder-Ritzrau, D. Scholz, C. Spötl, D. F. C. Riechelmann, M. Mudelsee, A. Wackerbarth, A. Gerdes, S. Riechelmann, A. Immenhauser, D. K. Richter, and A. Mangini
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